A Narrative of the Late Transactions at Benares: By Warren Hastings, EsqJ. Debrett, (successor to Mr. Almon), 1782 - 132 pages |
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... forming their judgment of it . In the following Narrative , if I can truft to my own fentiments , or if those who fhall read it will credit this declaration of them , I shall less ftudy to efface that impreffion than seek to divest my ...
... forming their judgment of it . In the following Narrative , if I can truft to my own fentiments , or if those who fhall read it will credit this declaration of them , I shall less ftudy to efface that impreffion than seek to divest my ...
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... forming him that you act under orders given you by me ; and in case of his refusal , you will " wait the arrival of two companies of fepoy's " belonging to Major Popham's detachment , who 66 are directed to follow and affift you in the ...
... forming him that you act under orders given you by me ; and in case of his refusal , you will " wait the arrival of two companies of fepoy's " belonging to Major Popham's detachment , who 66 are directed to follow and affift you in the ...
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... formed the effence of the State itfelf ; reprefentation , title , and the estimate of public opinion , Such a ftroke as that which I have fuppofed would have been univerfally confidered as decifive of the national fate : every State ...
... formed the effence of the State itfelf ; reprefentation , title , and the estimate of public opinion , Such a ftroke as that which I have fuppofed would have been univerfally confidered as decifive of the national fate : every State ...
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... formed for fuch a mode of attack , and in no ftate of de- fence against a wary aflailant , would have prov . ed an eafy conqueft . Unhappily , the ill - timed ambition of a rafh individual defeated this plan , and had nearly caused the ...
... formed for fuch a mode of attack , and in no ftate of de- fence against a wary aflailant , would have prov . ed an eafy conqueft . Unhappily , the ill - timed ambition of a rafh individual defeated this plan , and had nearly caused the ...
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... formed my refolution to leave Benares , I fent my Moonshy to the Nabob Saadut Ally Cawn to re commend the wounded fepoys to his care , be- . lieving that the Rajah , from a confideration of policy , would not chufe to moleft them , efpe ...
... formed my refolution to leave Benares , I fent my Moonshy to the Nabob Saadut Ally Cawn to re commend the wounded fepoys to his care , be- . lieving that the Rajah , from a confideration of policy , would not chufe to moleft them , efpe ...
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Affidavit affiftance againſt alſo anſwer arrived Aumil battalion of fepoys Begums Benares Bidjeygur Buxar Calcutta cauſe Cawn Chunar circumftance Colonel command Company conduct confequences confideration confifted defign defired detachment ditto encreaſe enemy Engliſh eſtabliſhed exprefs faid fame fent fervant fervice feven fhall fhould ficca rupees fide fince firft firſt fituation five lacks fome Fowke Francis Fowke ftate ftrength ftrong fubfidy fubject fuccefs fuch fuffered fuperior fupport Fyzabad Governor-General greateſt himſelf Honourable horſe iffue inftant infurrection interefts itſelf juſtice lacks of rupees lefs letter Lieut Lucknow Lutteefpoor Major Popham Markham Matchlock meaſure ment moft moſt muſt myſelf Nabob narrative obfervation occafion officers orders paffed paſs paſt Pateetah payment perfon poffeffed poffeffion poffible prefent purpoſe raiſe Rajah Cheit Sing Ramnagur received Refident refolved refpect regiment requeſt Sepoys ſhall Sing's Sircar ſtate ſuch Sunnud thefe themſelves theſe thoſe tion troops uſe WARREN HASTINGS WILLIAM MARKHAM Zemidarry Zemidars
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Page 11 - Zemeedary could contribute, appeared to me of less consideration as such, than as they were evidences of a deliberate and systematic conduct, aiming at the total subversion of the authority of the Company, and the erection of his own independency on its ruins.
Page 15 - I resolved," these are the words of Hastings himself, "to draw from his guilt the means of relief to the Company's distresses, — to make him pay largely for his pardon, or to exact a severe vengeance for past delinquency.
Page 12 - Marattas, and other powers, who either were, or might eventually become enemies to the company; and, that he was collecting, or had prepared, every provifion for open revolt, waiting only for a proper feafon to declare it, which was fuppofed to depend, either on the arrival of a French armament, or on a Maratta invafion. It will appear not a little extraordinary, that...
Page 20 - Governor tells you bis motive for this extraordinary proceeding, fo contrary to every mode of juftice towards either a prince or a fubject, fairly and without difguife ; and he puts into your hands the key of his whole conduct : " I will fuppofe, for a moment, that I have acted with unwarrantable rigour towards Cheit Sing, and even with injuftice.
Page 126 - Whether there was not a compact between him and the Company which specified that he was only to pay them a certain annual tribute ? ' * Their answers to these questions show more desire than ability to support the Governor-General.
Page 11 - Bidjeygur and Lutteefpoor, and made yearly additions to it ; that he kept up a large military establishment both of cavalry, of disciplined and irregular infantry, and of artillery ; that he had the above, and many other fortresses of strong construction, and in good repair, and constantly...
Page 12 - ... the above and many other fortresses of strong construction and in good repair, and constantly well stored and garrisoned ; that his aumils and tenants were encouraged and habituated to treat English passengers with inhospitality and with enmity ; that he maintained a correspondence with the...
Page 13 - Sing obtained from our influence exerted by myself the first legal title that his family ever possessed of property in the land of which he till then was only the Aumil, and of which he became the acknowledged Zemeedar, by a Sunnud granted to him by the Nabob Shujah-udDowlah at my instance in the month of September 1773.
Page 20 - Calcutta impreffed with the belief that extraordinary means were necefiary, and thofe exerted with a ftrong hand, to preferve the Company's interefts from finking under the accumulated -weight which...